The definition of prayer is paying careful and concentrated attention to something other than your own constructions.

Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know.

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews Not to be born is the best for man The second best is a formal order The dance's pattern, dance while you can. Dance, dance, for the figure is easy The tune is catching and will not stop Dance till the stars come down from the rafters Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!

All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of Authority whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State and no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice to the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.

Almost all of our relationships begin and most of them continue as forms of mutual exploitation, a mental or physical barter, to be terminated when one or both parties run out of goods.

I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.